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Funding and backers
Total raised
$65M
12 rounds on record
Latest round
$4.4k
Convertible Note · Jul 2025 · 14 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
1
Sapphire Ventures
The money's age
Due for its next round
14 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convertible Note | Jul 2025 | $4.4k | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | May 2025 | $14.8M | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | May 2025 | $14.8M | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | Nov 2023 | $23k | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | Sep 2022 | $30k | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | May 2022 | $20.7M | — | Venturebeat |
| Convertible Note | Mar 2021 | $16k | — | SEC Form D |
| Series A | Oct 2020 | $10M | — | StackHawk, Inc. |
| Convertible Note | Jul 2020 | $4.8k | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Mar 2020 | $2.5M | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | Dec 2019 | $3.1k | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Jul 2019 | $2.1M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | StackHawk, Inc. | its site |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Joni KlippertExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Scott GerlachExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Ryan SevernsExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Bryce AmbraziunasExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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News
StackHawk's Wingman fixes security flaws while the AI agent is still coding
StackHawk's Wingman fixes security flaws while the AI agent is still coding - SiliconANGLE
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StackHawk Launches Wingman to Autonomously Fix Vulnerabilities During AI Coding Sessions
StackHawk, the application security company, today announced the public launch of Wingman, a product that gives software engineers the ability to autonomously fix security vulnerabilities in the same AI coding session in which the code was written. Wingma
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StackHawk Launches Wingman to Autonomously Fix Vulnerabilities During AI Coding Sessions
/PRNewswire/ -- StackHawk, the application security company, today announced the public launch of Wingman, a product that gives software engineers the ability...
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The Smartest People in AI Are Telling Us to Fix Everything. Now There Is a Way to Do It.
Wingman is broadly available today. Here is why we built it, and why the clock is louder than most security programs are acting like it is. We started StackHawk in 2019 to help engineers fix vulnerabilities. Not find them. Fix them. Finding was already a
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8 Best API Security Testing Tools in 2026
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at StackHawk over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
23
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
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Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$200k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $200k | $200k |
Highest paying role
Senior Software Engineer, Agentic Systems
$200k
Normalized to USD per year
People

Joni Klippert
Executive Officer, Director

Scott Gerlach
Executive Officer

Ryan Severns
Executive Officer

Bryce Ambraziunas
Executive Officer

Todd Vernon
Director

Greg Sands
Director

David Hartwig
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~17 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
100% ▲
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Denver
Denver
United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 200-500 est. staff $200k Avg Salary
hires for Backend
Jobs
$150k – $200k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • Denver
Python
Java
Rust
Kotlin
TypeScript
Gradle
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
Model Context Protocol
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
OpenAI Codex
Context Engineering
LLM Evaluation
Tool Use
DevOps
gRPC
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
GitLab
Cybersecurity
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Financials
Total raised
$65M
Latest round
Convertible Note
Funding rounds
12
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Convertible Note | 2025 | $4.4k | Details |
| Convertible Note | 2025 | $14.8M | Details |
| Convertible Note | 2025 | $14.8M | Details |
| Convertible Note | 2023 | $23k | Details |
| Convertible Note | 2022 | $30k | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | $20.7M | Details |
| Convertible Note | 2021 | $16k | Details |
| Series A | 2020 | $10M | Details |
| Convertible Note | 2020 | $4.8k | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | $2.5M | Details |
| Convertible Note | 2019 | $3.1k | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2019 | $2.1M | Details |

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